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Personality traits and the evaluation of start-up subsidies

Caliendo, Marco; Künn, Steffen; Weißenberger, Martin - 2016

. Evaluation studies of such programmes commonly rely on the conditional independence assumption (CIA), allowing a causal … success, these variables were neglected in evaluation studies so far due to data limitations. In this paper, we evaluate a new … start-up subsidy for unemployed individuals in Germany using propensity score matching under the CIA. Having access to rich …

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Ranking economists on the basis of many indicators : an alternative approach using RePEc data

Seiler, Christian; Wohlrabe, Klaus - 2011

In socio-economic sciences the RePEc network (Research Papers in Economics) has become an essential source for the gathering and the spread of both existing and new economic research. Furthermore, it is currently the largest bibliometric database in economic sciences containing 33 different...

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Who is the "journal grand master"? : a new ranking based on the Elo rating system

Lehmann, Robert; Wohlrabe, Klaus - 2016

In this paper we transfer the Elo rating system, which is widely accepted in chess, sports and other disciplines, to rank scientific journals. The advantage of the Elo system is the explicit consideration of the factor time or the history of a journal's performance. Most other rankings that are...

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The Ifo Investment Database

Strobel, Thomas; Sauer, Stefan; Wohlrabe, Klaus - 2013

In this paper we present the Ifo Investment Database, which provides annual investment data for 12 investment assets in 50 German industries from 1991 onward. The data is consistent with national accounts statistics provided by the German Federal Statistical Office and is based on investments in...

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Assessing the macroeconomic forecasting performance of boosting : evidence for the United States, the Euro Area, and Germany

Buchen, Teresa; Wohlrabe, Klaus - 2013

to the fit. Using data for the United States, the euro area and Germany, we assess the performance of boosting when …

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Boosting and regional economic forecasting : the case dof Germany

Lehmann, Robert; Wohlrabe, Klaus - 2016

German states (the Free State of Saxony and Baden-Wuerttemberg) and Eastern Germany for the period from 1997 to 2013, in …

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Which factors drive the decision to boycott and opt out of research rankings?

Berlemann, Michael; Haucap, Justus - 2012

the best known research ranking of business scholars, initiated and published by Germany's largest business daily …

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Looking into the black box of boosting : the case of Germany

Lehmann, Robert; Wohlrabe, Klaus - 2015

This paper looks into the 'fine print' of boosting for economic forecasting. By using German industrial production for the period from 1996 to 2014 and a data set consisting of 175 monthly indicators, we evaluate which indicators get selected by the boosting algorithm over time and four...

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On the representativeness of the ifo business survey

Hiersemenzel, Magdolna; Sauer, Stefan; Wohlrabe, Klaus - 2022

Germany. Moreover, the anonymized micro data can be used for a wide range of research projects. In order to obtain robust …

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Beyond the business climate : regular and supplementary questions in the ifo Business survey

Demmelhuber, Katrin; Sauer, Stefan; Wohlrabe, Klaus - 2022

In the monthly ifo Business Survey around 9,000 German companies answer questions about their current business situation, expectations and plans for the near future as well as on other business variables. This paper provides an overview of all regular questions (monthly, quarterly, bi-annually,...

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